I've heard that Yao Ming's parents were forced to marry by the communist leaders of China in hopes of producing a basketball prodigy. I found an article (which is actually a book excerpt) from TimeAsia magazine that gives the whole story on that, as well as Yao's story starting with his mother's youth and going through to his playing days with the NBA's Houston Rockets--all in 8 interesting pages.
As to the forced marriage? According to the article, it was an "arranged" marriage that they were "encouraged" to enter. Perhaps "forced" is too strong, but maybe not...
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Reading about his Mom's history was very interesting - straight out of "1984."
So Yao and the Panda Bears have more in common than I thought - they are both funneling money back to Red China.
"Forced" would not be too strong of a word, but coerced would be most accurate.
Cool picture. I'd like to use that picture. Where did you get it from (the source)? Is it public domain? I can't use anything that's subject t copyright...uggh.
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